remove_punctuation

pyhelpers.text.remove_punctuation(x, rm_whitespace=True)[source]

Remove punctuation from string-type data.

Parameters:

x (str) – raw string-type data
rm_whitespace (bool) – whether to remove whitespace (incl. escape characters), defaults to True

Returns:

text with punctuation removed

Return type:

str

Examples:

>>> from pyhelpers.text import remove_punctuation

>>> raw_text = 'Hello world!    This is a test. :-)'

>>> text = remove_punctuation(raw_text)
>>> text
'Hello world This is a test'

>>> text = remove_punctuation(raw_text, rm_whitespace=False)
>>> text
'Hello world    This is a test'